8.0/1098 votes#1 - Shotgun Wedding (II)
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1979
The girls get engaged to Richie and Fonzie to avoid a shotgun wedding. The crossover starts on Happy Days S07E01 Shotgun Wedding (I).
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: Judy Pioli
- 7.9/1087 votes
#2 - One Heckuva Note
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1979
Shirley finds an old love note written to Laverne from Carmine. This practically ends the girls friendship.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1091 votes
#3 - Fat City Holiday
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1979
The girls get jobs at a weight loss camp.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1086 votes
#4 - Upstairs, Downstairs
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/1979
A fight over returning a wrongly issued check sets the girls to dreaming about Shirley in heaven and Laverne in hell.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1087 votes
#5 - What Do You Do With a Drunken Sailor?
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 10/18/1979
Shirley's brother returns home from the Navy, an alcoholic.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/1087 votes
#6 - You've Pushed Me Too Far
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/1979
Lenny refuses to have anything to do with Squiggy after he pushes him into a garbage can from their second floor apartment window. Laverne and Shirley get the two friends to make up in Squiggy's uncle's wax works museum.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/1086 votes
#7 - The Wedding
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/1979
Edna accepts a marriage proposal from Frank, who waited to the last minute to ask her. Laverne and Shirley end up singing at their wedding in an all-black gospel choir.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1095 votes
#8 - Bad Girls
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1979
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Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1090 votes
#9 - You're in the Army, Now (1)
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1979
Laverne & Shirley enlist in the W.A.C.s to get even for a missed promotion.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1086 votes
#10 - You're in the Army, Now (2)
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/15/1979
Laverne & Shirley regret joining the Army.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1089 votes
#11 - Take Two, They're Small
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 11/22/1979
Lenny and Squiggy fix Laverne and Shirley up with computer dates, who turn out to be midgets.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1092 votes
#12 - The Fourth Annual Shotz Talent Show
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/1979
Laverne and Shirley are in charge of selecting the acts for the 4th annual Shotz talent show. It starts off with Frank auditioning in Laverne and Shirley's apartment showing them his ventriloquist act. He produces a Laverne doll which cracks Shirley up but Laverne is none too impressed until Frank produces a Shirley doll which Laverne starts laughing at, but now Shirley doesn't find it so funny. They convince Frank that his act is just too good for the show and that he should MC it as usual. He agrees as he doesn't want to show up all the other acts. We then see Laverne and Shirley auditioning acts at Shotz. Upon the end of each act when Laverne and Shirley ask the never seen Mr.Shotz what he thought he of the last act, all we hear is a raspberry. Lenny and Squiggy sings a number called ""I Knew I Should Have Listened To Momma"" which also gets a raspberry. Carmine and Edna come in singing ""Yankee Doodle"" and tap dancing. Mr.Shotz loves this and tells the girls that he wants this year's
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/1087 votes
#13 - Testing, Testing
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 12/13/1979
Shotz hires a psychiatrist to evaluate job aptitudes. The gang are all terrified that some deep dark secret, or that all their inadequacies are going to be revealed when they visit the company shrink.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
- 9.0/10107 votes
#14 - Not Quite South of the Border
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 1/7/1980
The girls can't wait to go on a vacation to Mexico. Unfortunately when they get there, they find half of their hotel room missing and that they have to share the room with another woman.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1089 votes
#15 - You Oughta Be in Pictures
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 1/14/1980
The girls jump at the chance to be the stars in a movie, unaware that the film they will be starring in is an Army hygiene film. Shirley begs Laverne to come and tryout for an acting part in a movie. Laverne agrees and they get to the studio. They subsequently get cast as the two stars of the feature. They have to go and get fitted for wardrobe and when they come out they're wearing cheap, gaudy costumes that Laverne immediately asks if they can keep. They're introduced to their leading men, upon which Shirley finds out that her leading man is gay. The director starts filming the movie and only then the girls find out they're playing hookers in an army hygiene film. When it's all over, we find Laverne and Shirley miserable at home. Then Lenny and Squiggy enter telling them they've just been to see the premiere of the film. Laverne and Shirley asks if anyone recognized them as the hookers. Lenny tells them not to worry, as no one recognized them, but he had to tell everybody it was the
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1092 votes
#16 - The Beatnik Show
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 1/21/1980
Shirley is turned on to Beatnik culture, while visiting a local coffee house one evening. She soon begins wearing black, and moping around the apartment, complaining that nothing in her life is ""cool"" anymore. Laverne then tries to snap her friend out of this Beatnik mindset, so she can go back to being her old self again.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
- 8.7/1085 votes
#17 - The Right to Light
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 1/28/1980
To protest a false bill, the girls chain themselves insde the gas company building, little knowing that another disgruntled customer has planted a bomb in the building. Because the girls are chained to the wall, they can't get out.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
- 8.9/10123 votes
#18 - Why Did the Fireman . . .
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 2/4/1980
Laverne falls for a fireman who is always being called to duty. Before he gets a chance to propose to Laverne, he dies in the line of duty saving many lives.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1084 votes
#19 - The Collector
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 2/11/1980
The girls try to talk Carmine out of going to work for a loan shark.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
- 8.8/10110 votes
#20 - Murder on the Moosejaw Express (1)
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 2/26/1980
The girls are riding the Moose Jaw Express when a murder victim enters their compartment.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
- 8.8/10100 votes
#21 - Murder on the Moosejaw Express (2)
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 3/4/1980
Laverne and Shirley try to find out who the murderer is.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1085 votes
#22 - Survival Test
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 3/11/1980
Sargeant Alvina Plout takes the girls on a survival test against the men.
Director: Joel Zwick
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1088 votes
#23 - The Duke of Squiggmann
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 3/25/1980
Squiggy sleepwalks thinking he is a rich duke.
Director: Penny Marshall
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1092 votes
#24 - Antonio, the Amazing
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 4/1/1980
Laverne and Shirley are returning from a friend's wedding to find a strange man lying asleep on their sofa. Laverne arms herself with a baseball bat and is about to hit the guy when he turns over and she can't bring herself to hit him as she thinks he's gorgeous. She's just about to kiss him to wake him up when Frank and Edna informs the girls that this is Laverne's cousin from Italy called Antonio. Laverne is miserable that she can't date her cousin, but Shirley exclaims ""He's not my cousin"" and goes for it, only to be reminded by Edna that she's got Carmine. Anotnio greets everybody and announces he's come to America to make his fortune. Antonio is exercising with Lenny and Squiggy, who are teaching him some bad habits, like biting your palm if you like something. The boys leave to go collect hair from the local barber shop and Carmine comes in. Carmine is letting Antonio stay with him while he's in Milwaukee and gives Antonio a t-shirt to wear advertising his dance studio on the bac
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/10133 votes
#25 - The Diner
Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 5/6/1980
Lenny inherits a greasy spoon diner called 'Laslo's Place', they immediately rename it ""Dead Laslo's Place"". Because Laverne and Shirley are desperate for work, they get hired to cook and waitress the diner. The girls get run off their feet and Shirley ends up running out of the diner screaming in frustration. Frank offers to buy the restaurant from Lenny, which he does, so now Frank has 2 restaurants.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Laverne & Shirley Season 5
Every episode of Laverne & Shirley Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Laverne & Shirley Season 5!
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Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Shotgun Wedding (II)" is the best rated episode of "Laverne & Shirley" season 5. It scored 8/10 based on 98 votes. Directed by Joel Zwick and written by Judy Pioli, it aired on 9/13/1979. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "One Heckuva Note".